Abstract: The triple visual angles that the research of the Chinese and Western aesthetic history of music in contemporary China inevitably touches upon are as followsone is the independent research that takes itself as the object of the work, discussing the aesthetic proposition, the aesthetic category that arises from its own cultural ambience, etc.; the other is the comparable research that takes the visual angle of the questions about the aesthetic theory of the other party as the reference; the still other is the explanatory aesthetic research of the past music aesthetic thinking by way of modern music aesthetic theoretical speech.

Key words: Chinese and Western aesthetic history of music, independent research, comparative research, explanatory aesthetic research